Editing Guard mounting (section)

===China===
The changing of the guard in [[Beijing]], the capital of the [[People's Republic of China]], may refer to three different ceremonies of the [[People's Liberation Army]] on [[Tiananmen Square]]. The first is a traditional changing of the guard consisting of two incoming soldiers, two outgoing soldiers and a commander from the [[People's Armed Police Honour Guard Battalion]], with the incoming and outgoing soldiers saluting the flagpole before taking up their posts beside it. The other changing of the guard is the raising of the [[Flag of China]] on the square every morning, which since 2018, has been manned by personnel from the [[Beijing Garrison Honor Guard Battalion]] who took over duties from the PAP, which itself had performed the ceremony since 1982 until that point.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2126341/dawn-new-era-changing-guard-beijings-sunrise-flag|title=Changing of the guard for Beijing's dawn flag-raising service|date=January 2018}}</ref>

Another changing of the guard ceremony takes place at the [[Mausoleum of Mao Zedong]], which contains the preserved body of [[Mao Zedong]], at the southern end of Tianamen Square, right exactly where the [[Gate of China, Beijing|Gate of China]] once stood. The Beijing Garrison Honor Guard Battalion also performs this ceremony.

At [[Xinhuamen]] the ceremonial changing of guards is performed by the [[Central Guard Regiment]]. Two members of the Central Guard Regiment ceremonial personnel, armed with ceremonial rifles, guarding the gate. The ceremony occurs every 2 hours.